Improvement in car-axle-box lids



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No. 200,854. Patented March 5,1878.

WITNESSES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH CONNER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-AXLE-BOX LIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,854, dated March 5,1878; application filed August 20, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH CONNER, of thecity and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Sliding Oar-Box Lids, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a full front View, and Fig.2 a partial back View, showing the lugs for holding the lid, ashereinafter more fully explained.

My invention relates to that class known as attachment car-box lids, andI call it an attachment sliding lid for car-boxes, as it differs fromordinary attachment-lids in the opening and closing, by means of asliding lid, instead of turning on hinges, as do other attachmentlidsknown to me.

Referring to the drawings, A is a sliding.

lid, having two lugs, O G, and finger-lift D,

and also two stop-lugs, c 0, corresponding with and has two stop-lugs, ee, which prevent the lid from being drawn all the Way out, as shown inFig. 2, where the lid is drawn out to its full extent, but is stopped atthis point by the lugs. By this means it will be impossible for the lidto come out or get lost without loosening the screws F F, to do whichthe lid must first be raised so that the lugs O 0 will clear the head ofthe screws F F.

I do not confine my invention to the exact configuration as shown, forthe frame B may be made in two pieces, or without the lower side of theframe t t and the lugs G 0 may bear against only one side of the screwsF, as at H H, Fig. 1 or two sides or three sides, as shown in thedrawings.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In acaraxle box, the combination of the slide A, frame B, lugs G O, andstop-lugs e and e constructed and arranged substantially as and for thepurpose described.

JOSEPH CON NER.

Witnesses:

E. S. WEST, WM. B. WEIS.

